Stockholm university

Henrik Tham

Research

Research area: Criminal policy, its development and determinants, including research on the crime victim, narcotic drugs policy, and public attitudes to punishments. A research project on the general sense of justice in the five Nordic countries is being presented on the homepage of The Scandinavian Research Council for Criminology, www.NSfK.org, including the questionnaires used in English for free use.

Research project:

Criminal policy in Sweden 1965–2015.

Publications

Tham, H., Rönneling, A. & Rytterbro, L-L. The emergence of the crime victim. Sweden in a Scandinavian context. I Michael Tonry & Tapio Lappi-Seppälä (red.), Crime and Justice in Scandinavia, Crime and Justice, Vol. 40, 2011.

Tham, H. The influence of the drug issue on criminal policy. Journal of Scandinavian Studies in Criminology and Crime Prevention, vol. 13, supplement 1, 2012.

Tham, H. Department of Criminology. I Dahl, G. & Danielson, M (red.). Faculty of Social Sciences, Stockholm Universtiy. Stockholm: Stockholms universitet, 2014.

Balvig, F., Gunnlaugsson, H., Jerre, K., Kinnunen, A. & Tham, H. The public sense of justice in Scandinavia: A study of attitudes towards punishments. European Journal of Criminology, 12: 1, 2015.

Research projects